Coinage in south-eastern Europe, 820-1396
By: by D.M. Metcalf.
Contributors: Metcalf, D. M.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Special publication / Royal Numismatic Society -- no. 11; Special publication (Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)) -- no. 11.
Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society
Published: 1979
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Coinage -- Balkan Peninsula.; Coins, Medieval; Numismatics -- Balkan Peninsula.
Description: xxii, 371 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Notes: Revised version of: Coinage in the Balkans, 820-1355.  1965.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Second Edition … v; title: Contents … ix; title: List of figures … xii; title: List of tables … xii; title: List of abbreviations … xiv; title: ◦; title: I. NUMISMATIC EVIDENCE FOR MONETARY HISTORY … 1; title: 1. What kind of information constitutes evidence? … 1; title: 2. The extent of the monetary sector … 7; title: 3. Historical analysis of the functions of money … 12; title: ◦; title: II. GROWTH IN THE MONETARY ECONOMY, 820-969 … 18; title: 1. The progressive enlargement of the monetary economy … 18; title: 2. The restricted character of monetary circulation in the Black Sea hinterland … 22; title: 3. Evidence from political and economic history for the character of monetary affairs in the early ninth century … 24; title: 4. The coinage of Michael II, and of Theophilus before his reform … 28; title: 5. The Theophilan reform: gold, silver, and copper coinage c. 831-886 … 29; title: 6. Statistics from Corinth and Athens, and their interpretation … 36; title: 7. Coinage in the Dobrogea and in the First Bulgarian Empire … 40; title: 8. Greece and the Aegean coastlands, 886-969 … 45; title: 9. The coinage of the Arab amirs of Crete … 48; title: ◦; title: III. THE ASCENDANCY OF BYZANTIUM, 969-1025 … 50; title: 1. What were the sources of monetary expansion under Basil II? … 50; title: 2. Histamena, and the occurrence of tetartera … 53; title: 3. Miliaresia: a dwindling stock of coinage-metal? … 54; title: 4. The ‘Rex Regnantium’ folles, Classes A-1, A-2, and A-3. Provincial minting for the reformed coinage of Class A-2 … 55; title: ◦; title: IV. MOVEMENTS TOWARDS POLITICAL AUTONOMY:  THE YEARS 1025-1092 … 63; title: 1. Rebellions and incursions, and their implications for monetary history … 63; title: 2. Selective hoarding of gold coinage in the Balkans: debasement, and price stability … 67; title: 3. Trends in the circulation of copper coinage in central Greece … 71; title: 4. Hoards and site-finds from the Dobrogea and from the interior … 73; title: 5. An emergency mint at Thessaloniki … 77; title: ◦; title: V. TOWN AND ROUTE:  THE TOPOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF MONETARY AFFAIRS … 79; title: 1. Regional circulation, and the viability of a currency … 79; title: 2. The framework: a sketch of the political and economic background … 83; title: 3. The framework: a survey of circulation-areas in the Balkans … 88; title: 4. Travellers’ hoards, and stray losses of ‘foreign’ coins … 98; title: 5. Urban development … 102; title: ◦; title: VI. THE COMNENIAN COINAGE AND ITS CONTINUATION, 1092-1261 … 104; title: 1. From the reforms of Alexius I to the expropriations of 1171. Changes in the Byzantine coinage system … 104; title: 2. Comparisons of the petty coinage in Greece and elsewhere; the decline of Corinth … 112; title: 3. Byzantine coinage in the territory of the Second Bulgarian Empire, 1185-1204 … 114; title: 4. Coinage as an economic indicator, 1171-126 … 119; title: 5. Issues of the Latin Emperors of Constantinople … 125; title: 6. The Bulgarian currency in the time of Boril and Ivan Asen II … 127; title: 7. Nicaean gold in the Balkans … 130; title: 8. The currency of Epirus, Thessaloniki, and the west Balkans, 1204-1261 … 132; title: ◦; title: VII. MONETARY CIRCULATION IN THE MARCHLANDS OF THE NORTH-WEST … 139; title: 1. Hungarian rule south of the Drava … 139; title: 2. The towns of Syrmia … 141; title: 3. Monetary interpretation of the Slavonian moneta banalis … 146; title: 4. Topographical analysis of the coin-finds from Slavonia … 154; title: 5. Monetary influences in Slovenia … 161; title: ◦; title: VIII. THE ADRIATIC COAST AS A MEETING-PLACE IN MONETARY AFFAIRS … 173; title: 1. The diversity of coinages found in the coastlands: a general interpretation … 173; title: 2. Coin-finds from the period 820-1082 … 176; title: 3. The northern Adriatic: coinage in Dalmatia, twelfth to fourteenth centuries … 179; title: 4. The local coinage of Split … 185; title: 5. A coinage for the revolt of Zadar, 1311-1313 … 189; title: 6. Dubrovnik … 191; title: 7. Kotor … 199; title: 8. The Albanian coasts: Shkoder, Durres, and Vlone … 201; title: ◦; title: IX. SILVER MINING AND THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE SERBIAN AND BOSNIAN COINAGES … 204; title: 1. The influence of silver production: coinage, currency, money economy? … 204; title: 2. Byzantine and Hungarian currency in the north-west Balkans before c. 1250 … 209; title: 3. The coinage of Stefan Radoslav (1227-1234) … 211; title: 4. The origins of the Serbian silver coinage at Brskovo and Rudnik … 212; title: 5. The political background to the issue of coinage … 217; title: 6. Diversification of the coin-types, and debasement. Mints and mint-marks … 219; title: 7. Summary of the numismatic evidence for the monetization of the economy in Serbia (to 1345) … 225; title: 8. Coinage of the Bans of Bosnia (to 1353) … 227; title: ◦; title: X. THE CURRENCY OF FEUDAL GREECE … 234; title: 1. Feudal economy, money economy … 234; title: 2. The persistence of petty currency in central Greece … 237; title: 3. Byzantine tetartera and imitative trachea in central Greece, 1204-c. 1250 … 239; title: 4. The petty coinages of Corinth and of the duchy of Athens, c. 1250-1311 … 243; title: 5. French, Frankish, and Catalan deniers tournois, c. 1250-c. 1400 … 247; title: 6. Tournois, soldini, and torneselli: monetary circulation in central Greece and the Morea … 254; title: 7. The import of English sterlings and of Venetian and Serbian coins into the Aegean area … 263; title: 8. Crete and the Aegean islands under Venetian rule … 266; title: ◦; title: XI. COINAGE IN THE RESTORED EMPIRE AND IN BULGARIA, 1261-c. 1350 … 268; title: 1. The Palaeologan currency under pressure, 1261-1355 … 268; title: 2. Problems of bimetallism in international trade … 277; title: 3. The Black Sea trade: Byzantine gold coinage in Bulgaria and the Dobrogea … 280; title: 4. The Bulgarian coinage, and its interpretation for monetary history, c. 1250-c. 1350 … 285; title: 5. Coinage in the Byzantine Peloponnese, 1262-1348 … 291; title: 6. Coinage of the Golden Horde in the Balkans … 292; title: ◦; title: XII. THE BALKANS: CHANGING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIES IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY … 294; title: 1. Integration into the European orbit, 1204-c. 1350 … 294; title: 2. Privileged expatriates and free ports … 296; title: 3. The silver price-rise, c. 1340-1380: European economic recession … 297; title: 4. The absence of gold and of high-value silver coins: monetary impoverishment? … 298; title: 5. Political ambitions and international realignments, c. 1350-c. 1400 … 302; title: ◦; title: XIII. THE NORTH BALKANS AND BYZANTIUM  IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY … 304; title: 1. The Empire of Stefan Dušan … 304; title: 2. Bulgaria in the time of Ivan Aleksandŭr and Ivan Shishman, Ivan Sratsimir, and Ivan Dobrotits … 310; title: 3. The Serbian Empire, 1355-1389 … 318; title: 4. Bosnia under Tvrtko I, 1353-1391 … 324; title: 5. The early coinage of the Voivodes of Wallachia: Vladislav I – Mircea the Elder (to c. 1394) … 326; title: 6. The Genoese at Pera and at Kilia … 331; title: 7. Constantinople, Thessaloniki, and the Morea under John V (1355-1391) … 333; title: ◦; title: APPENDIX:  Quantities of coinage issued in the Balkans in the nineteenth century … 336; title: GAZETTEER [provenience of hoards and site finds] … 337; title: KEY TO THE PLATES … 353; title: INDEXES … 361; title: PLATES (1-8) … 373